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Food

5a. Read the lists. Can you add to them? Which of these do you eat every day? Which is your favourite/least favourite?

b.What do you need to make

ña chicken salad sandwich?

ñan omelette?

ña fruit salad?

c.Which of the fruits and vegetables in Ex. 5a grow in your country? Are they the same in your language? Use the words in the list to say how you usually eat them.

ñraw ñ boiled ñ steamed

ñfried ñ grilled ñ baked

ñroasted ñ pickled

Olives grow in my country. I usually eat them pickled.

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Writing Project

Write the recipe of a famous dish from your country for an international students’ magazine. First write the listofingredients, next write the stepsthat need to be followed. End your recipe saying how many people the dish serves.

7Match the pairs, then make up sentences.

Do you take milk and sugar in your coffee?

8Match the opposites, then name foods or drinks which can go with each.

sweet chocolate – bitter coffee – sour lemon

9a. Can you guess what each sentence is about?

1 Oh, well done, please. I can’t eat it if it’s rare. 2 Would you like still or sparkling, sir?

3 There’s no white left I’m afraid, you’ll have to have brown.

4 Yes, they do either a continental or a full English. 5 Yes, there’s still some in the pot. Would you like

milk and sugar?

b. Listen and check if you were correct.

Ways of cooking

10 Look at the pictures. How can each of these foods be prepared? In pairs, act out dialogues.

ñ boiled ñ roasted ñ fried ñ stuffed ñ grilled ñ baked ñ poached ñ steamed

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4 5

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A: How can tomatoes be cooked?

B: They can be fried, stuffed or grilled.

The tables were laid with expensive, white linen tablecloths.

12a. Listen and match the speakers to the places. What is each person complaining about?

b.Where could you see these signs? In pairs, think of two dishes you can have at each place.

Diner’s Complaints

13 Match the adjectives to the nouns, then, in pairs, act out dialogues, as in the example.

A:Excuse me.

B:Yes, sir?

A:This knife is dirty.

B:I’m sorry, sir, I’ll replace it immediately.

Quantifiers

Grammar Reference

14 Fill in some, any, no, little or few. How do we use each?

1Could I have some more coffee please?

15 Complete the dialogue, then act out similar dialogues using the prompts.

16 a. Read the dialogue and underline the correct item.

A:It shouldn’t take too long to do the shopping this week. I don’t think we need 1) many/much.

B: Well, there’s 2) no/any cheese left and only a

3) little/few bit of butter.

A:Yes, don’t worry. They’re both on the list. Can you think of 4) something/anything else?

B:How 5) many/much eggs have we got left?

A:Oh, there should be plenty. I don’t think we need

6)no/any more.

B:Why don’t you get 7) some/any spaghetti and a

8)little/few mince and I’ll make bolognaise for dinner tonight.

A:Oh, that would be nice. I’ll get a 9) few/little more tomatoes and 10) some/any mushrooms as well.

b.In pairs, look at the ingredients in Ex. 6b and act out a similar dialogue.

17 Fill in alotof, much, many, (a)few, (a)little, plentyof.

18 Look at the pictures and ask and answer, as in the example.

1A: Are there enough biscuits to go round?

B:No, there are only a few left.

Containers & Contents

19 What can you see in the pictures? Make up sentences using the words bag,box,carton,tin, bar, packet,bottle,jar. What other foods/drinks can go with each container?

Can I have a bottle of ketchup, please?

Countable/Uncountable Nouns

20 Write C (for countable) or U(for uncountable) next to each of the nouns, then make up sentences.

I’d like some roast lamb, please.

Competition Game

In pairs, think of a recipe and list the ingredients you need. Stand in front of the class and use your list to act out a dialogue as if you are making a shopping list for this dish. Students, in teams, try to guess what you are planning to cook. The first team to guess correctly is the winner.

S1: Have we got any eggs?

S2: No, we need to buy some.

S1: All right. What about butter? etc

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Reported Speech:

special introductory verbs

21 Match the verbs 1-12 to the direct sentences a-l and then rewrite them as reported speech using the appropriate introductory verb, as in the example.

aSusan’s mum told her, "You are not allowed to go to the party."

Susan’s mum forbade her to go to the party.

b"Would you like to come over to dinner tonight?" Ian asked her.

cHis secretary said, "Don’t forget that the time of the meeting has changed to 11 o’ clock."

d“I’m so sorry I was late. My car broke down," Chris said to Angela.

e"The service is very slow in this café, isn’t it?" Dave said.

fMary told Jim, "If you do that again, I’ll have to tell your mother.”

g"Don’t touch the oven or you’ll get burned," she said to the children.

h “If I were you, I’d go to Tony’s," Andy said to Mark.

iBen told Helen, "I can help you with the shopping if you like."

j“Let’s have fish for dinner,” said Tom.

k “I’m definitely the best chef in town," Bob said.

lThe policeman said to the criminal, "Stand still."

Prepositions

Appendix 1

3Researchers have shown that there is a relationship

b.Fill in the correct prepositions, then make up sentences using the phrases.

Grammar in use

Phrasal Verbs

Appendix 2

23 Replace the verb in bold with the correct phrasal verb formed with makeor put.

1 Let’s postpone our trip to the countryside until the weather improves.

2He invented an excuse but I’m sure nobody believed him.

3Tina’s dad was away on business on her birthday but he compensated

for it by bringing her back some beautiful presents.

4 It took the firefighters about two hours to extinguish the fire.

5John proposed some really good ideas at the last meeting.

6 I don’t think he is going to tolerate her complaining for much longer. 7 I could see the sign, but I couldn’t distinguish exactly what it said.

8 Vicky is saving her money at the moment to buy a new car. 9 He stored the potatoes in the cupboard.

10 The thieves stole about í2000.

Open Cloze

24 Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE WORD in each gap.

When you walk around a supermarket 0) these days you can easily be dazzled 1) …....................... all the food labels claiming to be ‘fat-free’ or ‘light’, but are these foods as healthy 2) …....................... they claim to be? Unfortunately, when you look more closely, 3) …....................... becomes clear that they are not. For example, a product that claims to 4) ….......................

80% fat free is simply a product that contains 20% fat, actually quite a high fat content. The 5) …..................... goes for so-called light foods.

Products 6) …..................... as sausages and mayonnaise that are naturally high 7) …....................... fat can be labelled ‘light’ even if 8) …....................... fat content is only slightly reduced. Another problem is that ‘low in fat’ 9) …...................... sometimes also mean low in taste. So, to make 10) …....................... for this, some manufacturers add a lot 11) …....................... salt and sugar to their low-fat products than is needed. This makes them 12) …................... bad as, if not worse than, the full fat equivalent.

In the UK, the government is preparing guidelines that would strictly control 13) …....................... use of phrases like ‘low fat’ and ‘light’ on food packaging, but until these come 14) ….................. effect don’t believe everything you read on the label.

If something looks 15) ….................. good to be true, it probably is.

Idioms & Fixed phrases

25 a. Fill in the gaps with the correct word from the list and then explain the meaning of each expression.

beans

cake

soup

potato

nutshell

tea

1I thought it would be really difficult to cook that Thai recipe, but in the end it was a piece of …................... .

2The children had a nap this afternoon so now they are full of …................... .

3I didn’t go to see the film with Alex because it didn’t sound like my cup of …................... .

4It’s very simple. In a …..................., all you have to do is call them and see what they want.

5Labour relations is a bit of a hot …................... in our office at the moment.

6Whenever she opens her mouth, she seems to land right in the …................... .

b.Find other English food idioms and present them in class.